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Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini

★ 7.3 4K votes 2024–2024 1 season · 3 episodes Ended Hulu
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 9/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 8/10Unreliable narratorThe telling itself can't be trusted.This show: 7/10
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"A missing-person case that unravels into deception"

This true-crime docuseries revisits the case of a California mother who vanished in 2016 and turned up weeks later with injuries, claiming she'd been kidnapped by two women. What starts as a sympathetic missing-persons story curdles into something much stranger as investigators, journalists, and family members pick apart her account. The pacing is brisk and interview-driven, leaning on local news footage and law-enforcement voices rather than dramatic reenactment. It's less about violence than about how a community and media cycle latch onto a narrative, and what happens when it collapses.

Watch it for

the slow unraveling of a viral missing-persons story into something far more complicated.

Maybe skip if

you want deep psychological insight rather than a fast, headline-driven true-crime recap.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12024
7.530732h 54m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1It's a Wonderful Life With You7.3
10952 min
▶2Smegma was Relentless7.4
10161 min
▶3You Never Found Me7.9
9761 min

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Cast

Keith Papini Self
Sheila Koester Self

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